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What is the price level going to be right before reserves run out? Right after? What is the percentage increase in the price level? In the exchange rate?
Why is the home interest rate always higher under a noncredible peg? Explain why nothing more than a shift in investor beliefs can cause a peg to break.
What would you say to Tufton concerning the merits of each statement? What steps have been proposed to prevent exchange rate crises?
Compare and contrast the Eurozone and the United States in terms of the optimum currency area (OCA) criteria.
The Maastricht Treaty places strict requirements on government budgets and national debt. Why do you think the Maastricht Treaty called for fiscal discipline?
Discuss the debate between states' rights versus centralized authority in the context of the EMU and the European Central Bank.
Based on this information, discuss the OCA criteria for this group of countries. What are the greatest potential benefits? What are the potential costs?
Which central bank has more independence to pursue price stability as a primary objective? Explain.
Why does the government have the ability to intervene in this way, while private actors do not?
Why can you find countries that rank high on the Ease of Doing Business indicator but low on the governance indicator? Are these countries rich or poor?
Which three emerging market countries have the highest spreads on their U.S. dollar debt? Which three have the lowest?
Answer the following: Do you agree or disagree with the actions taken by the restaurants in San Francisco?
The article Why a ‘Grand Deal' on Labor Could End Trade Talks describes these concerns and argues that such a grand deal would be a mistake for United States.
Who gains and who loses when governments in Europe and the United States provide subsidies to Airbus and Boeing?
What is the effect of the sales tax on the quantity of cigarette exports from the United States?
Explain why the WTO is more concerned with the use of direct export subsidies than production subsidies in achieving the same level of domestic support.
Describe how you could use an options contract to hedge against the risk of losses associated with the potential appreciation in the U.S. dollar.
If the law of one price holds, what is the price of coffee in Côte d'Ivoire, measured in CFA francs?
How much is the dollar overvalued/undervalued? What do you predict the U.S. real exchange rate with the United Kingdom will be in one year's time?
What is the inflation rate in Korea? In Japan? b. What is the expected rate of depreciation in the Korean won relative to the Japanese yen (¥)?
Compute the interest rate paid on Korean deposits. If nominal interest rate in Japan remains unchanged, what happens to interest rate paid on Korean deposits?
What does dollarization imply about the exchange rate between Ecuador and United States? Why might countries experiencing hyperinflation adopt dollarization?
Why is having a nominal anchor important for you to achieve the inflation target? What is the drawback of using a nominal anchor?
Illustrate how a temporary decrease in the U.S. money supply affects the money and FX markets.
Illustrate how a permanent increase in India's money supply affects the money and FX markets. Label your short-run equilibrium point B and your long-run equilib